The impact of acculturation on immigrant children's self-perceptions, feelings of loneliness and social status

Educational and Child Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 35-46

  Leondari, Angeliki ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Irinis 89   (Greece)

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